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Rating
5/5
Summary
The only digital insights platform that gives you complete understanding of your customers’ digital journeys, so you can quickly improve conversion, retention, and customer delight.
An open-source product analytics for developers. It helps engineers understand their product usage, automate events, and user data collection.
A website UX tool. See how your visitors actually use your website. It features visitor recordings, live chat, heat map suite, analytics, polls, & more.
Pirsch is a simple, cookie-free, open-source web analytics solution that integrates easily into your website or backend.
Pros
- It is easy to implement
- It has data science capabilities
- Reports are easy to build
- Interface is user-friendly
- Easy to set up
- Great interface design
- Reasonable pricing
- Good session recordings
- Easy to use
- Great tagging feature
- Attentive support team
- Lightweight, cookie-free and open-source
- Pirsch's backend integration requires no client-side scripts and delivers the same accurate results without the interference of adblockers
- Extensive API
- Fully-fledged access management
- Comprehensive filtering by any metric including event metadata
Cons
- Tech support is quite basic
- Difficult to share dasboards
- Onboarding could be improved
- Feature flags are limited
- Limited amount of graph types
- Filtering could be improved
- New version can be glitchy
- Slight learning curve for beginners
- Visitors are only recognized for up to 24 hours to comply with the privacy policy
- Heatmaps and session recordings are not available
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Free | Free |
| Growth | On req. |
| Pro | On req. |
| Premier | On req. |
| Cloud Lite | Free |
| Cloud | €0.005 per event / recording |
| Enterprise Cloud | €450 p/m minimum |
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
7 days
30 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
1
Unlimited
1 per plan but option to add 1 for €5
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Account Security
- Single Sign-on
- Two-factor Authentication
- Single Sign-on
- Two-factor Authentication
- Single Sign-on
- Two-factor Authentication
- Single Sign-on
- Two-factor Authentication
Data Processing
Data Center Locations
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- United States
- United States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
Software Hosting
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud
- On-Premise
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud
- On-Premise
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud
- On-Premise
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud
- On-Premise
Data Ownership
You
You
Lucky Orange
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
12 months
Unlimited
2 months for heatmaps & recordings and 12 for other features
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Data Import
Historical data ingestion
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
Via CSV or API
via API or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- PECR
Cookieless
Heap relies on first-party cookies
Posthog has the option to be used without cookies
Lucky orange uses first-party cookies
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Via Slack or email
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Email Reports
Schedule regular emails for important charts
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
With quantitative measurement of user friction & step suggestions
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
Sankey chart with path comparison
Entry and exit pages
Segmentation
Quickly identify patterns in user behavior
Extensive filtering by any metric
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Track UTM parameters or initial referrer sources
Simple referrer graph
Ecommerce Reporting
Easy setup with eCommerce Activation Kit
Possible with custom events and goals
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Automatically filters relevant replays
A/B Testing
Feature flags and A/B testing
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback
Track NPS score events in surveys
Surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
As part of custom events
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
Annotations
Support
Support description
Heap offers extensive documentation and access to their in-depth collection of Heap University courses to get up and running. Need more help? Join the community or contact their knowledgable support staff through email.
Posthogs' support consists of an extensive knowledge base and community on their website. For enterprise users, support is also available trough a dedicated Slack channel and via e-mail.
Lucky Orange offers support by means of email, a live chat, and a ticketing system. Besides that, they have an extensive knowledge base and they offer an onboarding service.
Email support, public Discord server
Support Options
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community